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Articles 221 through 320 of 500:
- ‘Living In India Has Taught Me There Are Other Ways To God Than Christianity... It Has Changed Me Radically’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 16, 2007)
Hello and welcome to Walk The talk. My guest this week is a legend of our times, Sir Mark Tully. Welcome to Walk The Talk.
- Musharraf’S Genie Of Religious Chauvinism (Asian Age, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 16, 2007)
Islamabad is a city with wide roads and deep runs of thick trees and green grass. Houses are expansive, neatly tucked into self-sufficient sectors, with markets, eating places and mosques.
- Defining India’S Minorities (Hindu, Ziad Haider, Jul 14, 2007)
A meaningful conception of minorities would include sections of people who, on account of their non-dominant position in the country as a whole, are targets of discrimination and therefore deserving of special consideration.
- Empty Words Flow Heavenwards (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jul 14, 2007)
My grandmother used to say her morning prayer while churning a large earthen pot to make buttermilk.
- The Caste Cauldron (Tribune, Jagdeep S. Chhokar, Jul 14, 2007)
The events in Rajasthan which have now come to be known as “the Gujjar agitation” are an inevitable consequence of actions that have been taken over the last 60 years under the name of social justice, empowerment of the dispossessed, and so on.
- Attacks In Britain Worry India Muslims (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2007)
The foiled terrorist attacks in Britain last month have prompted anxiety and soul searching in India, a country whose economy is bolstered by its citizens’ ability to work overseas.
- Bounced Cheques And The Bereaved (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jul 13, 2007)
AN utterly outrageous incident that would almost certainly have triggered a storm of protests in any civilised society has just gone virtually unnoticed in this heartless country.
- Sleepless For Muslim Votes (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Jul 13, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been having sleepless nights for the two Indian doctors who are in the centre of the London-Glasgow terror plot.
- Doctor Terror. Surprised? (Indian Express, Seema Chisti, Jul 11, 2007)
For the first time IT City Bangalore has found more than vague mention in an international terrorism plot. Not for the first time, though, the alleged perpetrators are relatively well-off and educated. After the failed Glasgow bombings, the question . .
- Wise Decision (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 11, 2007)
AS the date of the proposed Sikh conference at Ratia in Haryana was drawing near, there was considerable anxiety among all responsible people, considering that there was a distinct possibility of a confrontation developing between the Sikhs and the . . .
- Chandra Shekhar: A Potential Unfulfilled (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 11, 2007)
I had the privilege of serving as Principal Secretary to Chandra Shekhar during his all-too-brief tenure as Prime Minister. It was the beginning of a remarkable experience with a remarkable man.
- A Tale Of Two Empires (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 10, 2007)
INDIA is getting nostalgic all over again. The ever inward-looking nation is celebrating the 150th anniversary of 1857, the First War of Independence against the British. So it’s only fit that travelling inside India, I have William . . . .
- Corporate Power In Us Elections (Frontline, Vijay Prashad, Jul 10, 2007)
BARACK OBAMA promised to run a different campaign for the United States' presidency. Defiantly inclusive, he wanted to avoid "negative" campaigning and to draw together this divided country around his positive image.
- Heal Thyself (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 09, 2007)
Prime minister Manmohan Singh said he could not sleep when he saw TV images of the family of the detained Indian doctor Mohammad Haneef and his cousins.
- Victims Of Errorism (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jul 09, 2007)
Any proud and self-respecting Indian would share the prime minister’s anguish and loss of sleep over the arrest of some Indian Muslims for suspected Al-Qaeda links.
- Victims Of Errorism (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jul 07, 2007)
Any proud and self-respecting Indian would share the prime minister’s anguish and loss of sleep over the arrest of some Indian Muslims for suspected Al-Qaeda links.
- A Myth Is Now Exposed (Pioneer, KPS Gill, Jul 07, 2007)
The involvement of some Indian doctors and engineers - conclusive evidence in two cases is yet to be disclosed, but there now seems little doubt that one of the perpetrators of the attack on Glasgow Airport, Kafeel Ahmed, is an Indian engineer - has . ..
- Compassionate Capitalism (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 07, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s recent remarks to the Confederation of Indian Industries on the unacceptable gulf which separates India’s affluent class from the poor and immiserated and his suggestions for tackling it produced much media outrage.
- It Is Wrong To Label Terrorist By Nationality: Pm To Brown (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is of the view that any community or caste should not be targeted in the wake of terrorist strike in the United Kingdom or anywhere else.
- Manmohan Speaks To Brown (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Jul 06, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has spoken to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and offered assistance in the investigation of the terror car attack at Glasgow airport in which two Indian doctors hailing from Bangalore are suspected to be involved.
- Stop Stereotyping, Pm Tells Brown (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2007)
I will not come to hasty conclusion on Indian links with terrorism. I am against labeling any country with terrorism. Terrorists are terrorists, there cant be any Indian terrorist or a Pakistani terrorist.
- Pm Speaks To Brown: Don’T Label Terrorists By Nationality (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has spoken to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the alleged involvement of Indians in the Glasgow terror attack. He said the Indian government had offered "all possible help" in the investigations.
- Compassionate Capitalism (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 06, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s recent remarks to the Confederation of Indian Industries on the unacceptable gulf which separates India’s affluent class from the poor and immiserated and his suggestions for tackling it produced much media outrage.
- Pm To Brown: Don't Stereotype Indians (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jul 06, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today donned a South Asian mantle and batted for Pakistan as well as its beseiged President Pervez Musharraf.
- This Debate Can’T Be Doctored (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 06, 2007)
When two years ago the 7/7 events happened on London’s underground, the shock was not that there was a terrorist attack but that the perpetrators were British Muslims.
- Don’T Label, Says Pm, As Glasgow Bomber Is ‘Identified’ As Indian (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2007)
With Indian doctors being arrested in connection with the failed terror plots in the UK, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to his British counterpart Gordon Brown and assured of him all possible help in investigations.
- Hard Questions From Glasgow (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 06, 2007)
Two years ago, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed pride in the fact that no Indian had joined the global jihad of Al Qaeda.
- Sydney Police Act On Sikh Humiliation (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2007)
Police in Sydney have finally circulated CCTV images of the two suspects who had ripped off a Sikh man's turban in a bus four months ago, after a Sikh group took up the incident with the local MP.
- Life Has To Go On (Tribune, Air Marshal R.S. Bedi (retd), Jul 03, 2007)
She left when I least expected. Immediately, I didn’t feel the impact of her sudden departure despite the turmoil she was in. But soon it caught on. She was everywhere and yet nowhere.
- Ensuring Nothing But The Truth (Indian Express, SANKAR SEN, Jul 02, 2007)
Perjury laws in India need to be stringently enforced. In a growing number of cases witnesses are turning hostile and stating exactly the opposite of what they had earlier stated before the police, and sometimes even before the magistrate.
- Salve For The Soul (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jul 02, 2007)
Religion has acquired rather negative connotations in recent years. We have seen it becoming the reason for strife and controversy.
- Hc Grants Interim Bail To Dera Chief (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 30, 2007)
In a reprieve for embattled head of Dera Sacha Sauda Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday granted him interim bail till August 6 in a case related to hurting religious sentiments of Sikhs but asked the sect chief to . . . .
- How Phoney, Sir Salman (Pioneer, Premen Addy , Jun 30, 2007)
Controversy, it would appear, follows novelist and author Salman Rushdie as assiduously as do bees to honey, or, as his multitude of foes would prefer, as bluebottle flies to dung.
- Interim Bail For Dera Chief (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 30, 2007)
Even as the Punjab government has upped the ante on the Dera issue by granting sanction to prosecute and arrest Dera Sacha Sauda chief Sant Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today came to the rescue of the beleaguered Sant . . .
- Gandhi Statue In The Us Faces Removal (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 30, 2007)
A multi-faith retreat centre near Boston that houses a life-size bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi is facing closure due to lack of state funding.
- Tension In Sirsa After Govt's Nod To Arrest Dera Chief (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 29, 2007)
Tension on Thursday mounted in Sirsa town of Haryana, the Dera Sacha Sauda hub, with sect followers taking out a protest march in the wake of the Punjab Government's nod for the prosecution of its chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
- Dera Moves Kalam, Seeks Badal Govt's Dismissal (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 29, 2007)
The Dera Sacha Sauda on Thursday moved President A P J Abdul Kalam demanding dismissal of the Punjab government for "politically manipulating" the sequence of events in the wake of the controversy involving its head despite the sect's efforts to . . .
- Tension As Dera Chief’S Arrest Is Cleared (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 29, 2007)
Signalling an escalation in the prevailing tensions between the Sikh community and adherents of the Dera Sacha Sauda, thousands of angry Dera supporters staged demonstrations demanding the immediate withdrawal of what they insist is a "false" criminal . .
- Fearing Chief’S Arrest, Dera Writes To Kalam, Says Dismiss Badal Govt (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 29, 2007)
Tension mounted today in Haryana’s Sirsa town, headquarters of the Dera Sacha Sauda, with sect followers demanding the dismissal of the Badal government in Punjab and taking to the streets to protest its sanction to the police for the arrest of . . .
- Dera Dispute (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 29, 2007)
It is unfortunate that things on the Dera Sacha Sauda front have not been sorted out. Worse, the situation has deteriorated.
- Dera Row: Khalsa Panel Splits; Sant Samaj Recalls 2 (Tribune, Varinder Walia, Jun 29, 2007)
In a major jolt to the Sikh hardliners, who have been spearheading a campaign against Dera Sacha Sauda, the 15-member Khalsa Action Committee (KCA) has been split, a day before its crucial meeting scheduled to be held at Fatehgarh Sahib.
- Dera Chief’S Apology “Unacceptable” (Hindu, Sarabjit Pandher, Jun 28, 2007)
Neither was the letter signed by Dera chief nor any mention made about the “mistake”: Vedanti
- Government Nod For Dera Chief’S Arrest (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 28, 2007)
The Punjab Government on Wednesday sanctioned the arrest and prosecution of Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh on the charge of hurting Sikhs’ religious sentiments.
- Dera Back On The Boil, Badal Says Ok To Chief’S Arrest (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 28, 2007)
Barely weeks after it had simmered down following an across-the-board political intervention, the Dera Sacha Sauda controversy is back on the boil. Late tonight, the Punjab government gave its sanction to the Bathinda police to arrest Dera chief . . .
- Uk Scraps Plan To Raise Sikh Regiment (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2007)
Britain has abandoned plans to raise an exclusive regiment of British Sikhs on the ground that it would be seen as a move encouraging racial segregation, a media report said on Sunday.
- Badal Seeks Manmohan’S Intervention (Hindu, Sarabjit Pandher, Jun 25, 2007)
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to approach the U.N.
- Khalistanis: Arrest Dera Chief (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2007)
Khalistani activists within the newly-formed Khalsa Action Committee led more than 2,000 Sikhs in a 65-km protest march in Punjab on Sunday to reiterate their demand for the arrest and prosecution of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, spiritual head of the . . .
- Bad Process, Bad Product (Pioneer, Jaya Jaitly, Jun 23, 2007)
Pratibha Patil's nomination as presidential candidate makes many wonder if women need a role model who is a mere pawn for the dynasty
- That Space Atop Raisina Hill (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 23, 2007)
As politicians and pundits get serious about the presidential polls, the blogs are agog. They even have a suggestion: Why not Bill Clinton?
- Hierarchy Of Hurt (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 22, 2007)
The relationship between religion and art has been extensively debated on several occasions. One of the longest raging controversies centred around UK’s Racial and Religious Hatred Act, 2006.
- Witness Fears Snag Canada’S Air India Inquiry (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2007)
The Canadian inquiry into the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182 hit a snag on Wednesday when witnesses refused to testify at the last minute, saying they feared for their safety.
- A Christian Move (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 21, 2007)
Christian tradition holds that St Stephen was a man full of faith and threw himself into his apostolic work with the greatest zeal. God blessed him by enabling him to perform great wonders and signs.
- The Call Of 1857 (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2007)
Legends of the First War of Independence 150 years ago deserve to be recalled in these days of the global revival of Western-style neocolonialism.
- Fury As Presidential Hopeful Urges Women To Throw Off 'Veil Of Invader' (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2007)
The woman nominated by India’s ruling Congress party to become the country’s first female president was at the centre of a national furore yesterday after she urged Muslims to throw away their veils.
- Reality Tv Discovers Religion At Last (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2007)
Think of it as Pop Idol meets Songs of Praise – only set in an Indian ashram.
Aastha, the leading religious television network in India, is to introduce a reality TV show, based on the global Idol formula, in an attempt to reach out to a younger . . .
- Piara Khabra (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2007)
The oldest MP in the House of Commons, Piara Khabra, who has died aged 85, had sat for Labour in Ealing Southall since 1992.
- Indians, Americans Bhai-Bhai: Bush (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2007)
In the backdrop of controversy over Democratic presidential hopeful Barrack Obama's comments on his party rival Hillary Clinton's connections with Indian-Americans, the White House has said President George W Bush is "proud" of the relationship . . .
- The Bhagalpur Shame (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 20, 2007)
That the criminal justice system has taken 17 long years to punish the guilty of killings in the Bhagalpur riots case speaks volumes about its ineffectiveness and standards of governance in the country.
- Chasing Safety And Freedom In Alien Lands (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Jun 20, 2007)
Sixty years after Indian independence, the occasion of World Refugees Day on 20 June is a reminder of the turbulent birth of the of three South Asian states - India and Pakistan in 1947, and Bangladesh in 1971 – and the large flows of refugees that . . .
- Refugees In J And K (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Jun 20, 2007)
A fierce controversy is raging in J&K over the issue of refugees/migrants, often taking a regional or a communal form.
- Monsoons And Politics No Sure Bet In India (Singapore Times, Siddharth Srivastava, Jun 20, 2007)
Can there be a connection between Indian monsoons and electing a new president? There is in the huge underground satta (betting) market that usually centers on cricket but takes on other issues as well.
- Muslim Fury As Women Urged To 'Throw Off Veil' (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2007)
The woman nominated by India’s ruling Congress party to become the country’s first female president was at the centre of a national furore yesterday after she urged Muslims to throw away their veils.
- Salaam Kalam (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 20, 2007)
In suggesting the name of President APJ Abdul Kalam for a second term, the Third Front - or the United National Progressive Alliance, as the new grouping of regional leaders is called - has said the right thing at the wrong time.
- Sectarian Challenge To Sikh Unity: The Dalit Question (Deccan Herald, Balraj Puri, Jun 19, 2007)
Would Akali Dal and Akal Takht devote their attention and accord equal status to the Dalits in society?
- The Pettiness Of The Race (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 18, 2007)
I had a feeling that this was going to happen. And I guess you did too; at some level, we all did. Two months ago, I wrote on this page, about the search for India’s next President.
- Misery Of Anachronism (Pioneer, KR Phanda, Jun 18, 2007)
It has become a habit with Muslim intellectuals and pseudo-secularists to say that the Muslims of India have had a raw deal after Independence.
- Foreign Hand: Hillary Pilloried For India 'Connections' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2007)
Some four decades ago, Indian lawmaker Piloo Modi famously walked into the parliament wearing a sign around his neck that read 'I am a CIA agent.'
- Reserve Force (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 15, 2007)
Its maverick alumni may never live this down. But St Stephen’s College seems to have scored a perfect ten for political correctness.
- Division Sums (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 15, 2007)
The scars of the Gurjjar reservation violence will heal slowly but Rajasthan is now a state that is deeply divided along caste lines. It did not begin with the Meenas and Gurjjars.
- Pakodas In Prince Rupert (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Jun 14, 2007)
When you notice that welcome signs at the Vancouver airport are in Punjabi too, and your passport is stamped by a lady Sikh officer looking resplendent in traditional headgear, you cannot help feeling that you are not very far from home . . . .
- Nobody Spared A Thought For June 3, 1947 (Asian Age, Inder Malhotra, Jun 14, 2007)
Surely at this time some Indians at least must be thinking of the diamond jubilee of Independence rather than of OBC quotas, other petty parochial concerns, murky manipulation, and crass and criminal pursuits.
- Jury Trials Preferable In Terror Cases, Says Air India Judge (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 12, 2007)
Rulings in high-profile terrorism trials have a better chance of winning public approval if they're delivered by juries rather than by judges, says the jurist who sparked a storm by acquitting two men in the Air India bombing.
- Communal Bias In Kashmir (Pioneer, Hari Om, Jun 11, 2007)
The extent to which the Kashmir Valley leadership has turned fanatic is evident from the manner in which it has given a communal orientation to a purely human issue.
- A Million Mutinies (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 09, 2007)
New research reveals that the 1857 uprising encompassed not only the entire Indian subcontinent but also several castes, communities and classes. Bahadur Shah Zafar’s August 1857 Delhi manifesto is path-breaking.
- Bones Minus The Flesh (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 09, 2007)
Why would anyone want to compress Ibsen’s masterpieces into ninety minutes or less? The éminence grise of modern drama meticulously chiselled them into such jewels that condensation amounts to just getting the plots right, and sacrifices the depth . . .
- R E G I O N: Faked Deaths Show Ills Of Indian Police (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2007)
As far as nearly everyone knew, Gurnam Singh Bandala was gunned down in a shootout with police 13 years ago during the waning days of an uprising by Sikh separatists.
- Downgrading Of A State (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jun 09, 2007)
The recent confrontation between the Akalis who rule and followers of Dera Sacha Dauda created turbulence across the whole of northern India.
- Breaching Borders (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 08, 2007)
Ordinary people take extraordinary risks for a better living and in the process make India a large-scale exporter and recipient of illegal migrants.
- Faiths At War (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 08, 2007)
PAST the gates of the Sachcha Sauda complex at Bathinda, the bleak south Punjab landscape transforms into a world designed to appear as a peasant might imagine paradise: hundreds of acres of lush green fields, dotted by woods.
- Apex Court Refuses To Hear Petition Against Dera Chief (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2007)
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a petition filed by the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee seeking to expedite the CBI probe into alleged criminal activities of Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
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